At the September 10th presidential debate, when pressed about Project 2025, Trump said the following: I haven’t read it. I don’t want to read it — purposefully. This statement aligned with multiple statements he made along the trail, attempting to distance himself from the nearly thousand page document that
Yesterday, The Atlantic published an article. Whether you want to call the article "explosive," "dumbfounding," or "stunning," it is remarkable in how unlike it is from anything that has, uh, ever happened. The Trump Administration Accidentally Texted Me Its War PlansU.S. national-security leaders
Recently, news dropped that Apple is delaying the release of its more advanced Siri features. Apple delays upgraded Siri: it’s taking ‘longer than we thought’Expect the improved Siri features to roll out “in the coming year.”The VergeJay Peters After announcing last June that the more robust capabilities
What happens to old software? Will we remember what it used to be like? In middle school, I sat on the Shared Decision Making Committee, a mostly useless panel of parents, teachers, administrators, and me. As part of being in the group, I got to attend a night of demos
For a generation or two, the US and China have been in a geopolitical waltz of diplomacy, trade war, and animosity as the two world powers attempt to hold onto and gain new global influence. Ironically, America's unceasing consumerism and profit incentive and China's logistical ability
For all of my tech curiosity and the DIY spirit I cultivate around my digital life, I have no idea how to code. I have attempted to learn multiple times, from clacking out HTML in high school, to taking online Fundamentals of Javascript courses, to signing up for Harvard'
I've spent the last few weeks writing almost exclusively about technology, and I think it's time to dip back into media and entertainment (and of course its intersections with technology). In the past, I've written pieces about building an online arts scene, my impressions
It's tough out here. You want to be an active part of modernity, but you don't want to feel complicit in all of its woes! What a conundrum! Today I want to share some of how I think it can be good to think about these
Google Calendar removed events like Pride and BHM because its holiday list wasn’t ‘sustainable’Some users are angry that some events have been removed.The VergeJay Peters In the last week or so, you may have heard some noise about Google changing the name of the Gulf of Mexico
Hi there. Today I want to talk about how I think about AI chatbots, why I use them, and some things I think about as I introduce them into my life. Just to get it out of the way, it's important I say that what follows here is
Thanks for a successful January for Arachne. I appreciate all of the feedback that this newsletter generates, and I hope to keep the momentum up. Today tips a little bit more in the politics direction than the tech/culture direction, but I think it's extremely important that people
As someone pretty keyed into the world of tech, I have observed a kind of narrative escalation around AI this week. In some analysis I've heard and read, the news around DeepSeek was the biggest tectonic shift in AI since OpenAI dropped ChatGPT in December 2022. I'